Monday, March 23, 2009

Fender Samarium Cobalt Noiseless 5 string Jazz Bass Pickups

Fender is the Ford of guitars--you either hate to love them, or love to hate them. My old Mexican Jazz bass pickups had a nice snarly, nasal sound, but the 60 cycle hum was bad enough to make your teeth hurt and the poles were kind of rusty. So I put in these fancy American custom pickups, which are aren't nearly as noisy but also seem to have less balls. I'm sure there's an ironic and/or racist metaphor here somewhere, but digging it up just seems like so much work.

RATING: 78%

(Image from pro-music-news.com.)

1 comment:

DCP said...

I was never any good at modding guitars. I mean, not that I ever tried, but I did put a bunch of Star Wars stickers over my Peavey Raptor if that counts.